Staff

Hazel White
MA (RCA)

Course Director, Master of Design

Tel: 01382 388288
Email: h.white@dundee.ac.uk
516 Crawford Building, DJCAD 13 Perth Road DD1 4HT

Biography

Hazel White’s research and practice investigates the secret life of our personal possessions. Hazel collaborates with multimedia artists, healthcare professionals, craft makers, computer programmers and designers to explore how engagement with personal objects can be translated into products and systems that have meaning in people’s lives.

REF Outputs

Handle with Care (2012), chapter in the forthcoming Prototyping, Craft in the Future Tense, published by Reaktion Books. The chapter discusses developing crafted digital objects which have a resonance for person and place.

Rip and Mix (2009): funded by t-labs, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin. Hazel worked with Fraser Bruce, Professor Mike Press and Master of Design Students, Rob Black, Lauren Currie, Giorgio Giove and Kate Pickering from the University of Dundee and Dr Rosan Chow and Katharina Bredies from t-labs testing and developing Case Transfer a design method developed by Chow at t-labs to generate new designs for Information and Communication Products and Services for older users.

Past, Present, Future Craft Practice (2008-09) Hazel is one of five craft practitioners commissioned to embark on a series of creative journeys from which craft as a process, product and experience can be documented, observed and evaluated. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Charmed Can jewellery tell us what we want from wearable technology? (2007): Arts and Humanities Research Council funded
This project used 'charms', a jewellery object particularly associated with 'special powers' and personal significance, to gather observations, thoughts and dreams as to how technology could impact on our lives in a personally significant way. 

Research Projects

Rip and Mix (2009): funded by t-labs, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin. Hazel worked with Fraser Bruce, Professor Mike Press and Master of Design Students, Rob Black, Lauren Currie, Giorgio Giove and Kate Pickering from the University of Dundee and Dr Rosan Chow and Katharina Bredies from t-labs testing and developing Case Transfer a design method developed by Chow at t-labs to generate new designs for Information and Communication Products and Services for older users.

Past, Present, Future Craft Practice (2008-09) Hazel is one of five craft practitioners commissioned to embark on a series of creative journeys from which craft as a process, product and experience can be documented, observed and evaluated. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Charmed Can jewellery tell us what we want from wearable technology? (2007): Arts and Humanities Research Council funded
This project used 'charms', a jewellery object particularly associated with 'special powers' and personal significance, to gather observations, thoughts and dreams as to how technology could impact on our lives in a personally significant way.